Clean Energy Cost-Savings: A Study of Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE)

Clean Energy Cost-Savings: A Study of Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE)

capacity) must be eliminated, and basic service providers should offer preferential loans to low- income residential consumers with subsidized rates, given that it is cheaper for the government to subsidize the investment in efficient distributed generation than to subsidize electricity with reduced rates. About the Authors Francisco José Barnés de Castro Francisco Barnés completed undergraduate studies in Chemical Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and obtained a Master of Science and a PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He carried out his academic career at UNAM where he held the following positions: Full-time career teacher between 1973 and 2015, when he retired; Dean of the School of Chemistry (1986-1993); Secretary General (1993-1995); Chancelor (1997-1999). He also counts years of professional experience in the public sector including: Technical Secretary of the Mexican Petrochemical Commission (1982-1986); General Director of the Mexican Petroleum Institute (1995-1996); Undersecretary of Energy Policy and Technological Development (2001-2004); Undersecretary of Hydrocarbons (2004); Commissioner at the Energy Regulatory Commission for two consecutive periods (2004-2014). Dr. Barnes has been a member of the International Advisory Council of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (USA) and of the Joint Public Advisory Committee of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (USA), as well as of the advisory councils of the University of Guanajuato and the Research, Innovation and Technological Development System at the State of Yucatán. He has been a member of the board of directors of: National Laboratories for Industrial Development (LANFI); Applied Chemistry Research Center (CIQA), Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV), at the Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP), Electrical Research Institute (IIE), National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (ANUIES), National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT), Nacional Financiera (NAFIN), National Institute of Electricity and Clean Energy (INEEL),at the United States and US-Mexico Foundation for Science (FUMEC), where he was president during 2010-2012. He was also president of the board of 17 chemical companies in the public sector. Dr. Barnes is currently a member of the board of directors of INCO Foundation, ICA Foundation and the National Laboratory for Advanced Informatics (LANIA)s, which he currently chairs. He is also independent counselor for Estrategia Energía Eléctrica Comercializadora and Pellet México. He has been president of the Mexican Institute of Chemical Engineers, of the National College of Chemical Engineers and Chemists and of the Mexican Association for Energy Economics, vice president of the Union of Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean (UDUAL) and vice president for North America of the World Energy Council. Dr. Barnes is the author or co-author of more than 20 papers in scientific journals and more than 50 papers on educational and technical issues; of two books: "Process Engineering” and “Technological Advances in the Refining Industry"; as well as of two international patents. Dr. Barnes is currently Managing Partner of CIFRA2 Consulting. Francisco Xavier Salazar Diez de Sollano A Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute of the Americas, Salazar is a partner at Gadex, Enix and Trust Mexico. Gadex is a consulting firm specialized in the natural gas market in Mexico, Enix is devoted to energy regulation while Trust Mexico analyses socio political risks for infrastructure projects in the country. Francisco is also the Coordinator of the International Confederation of Regulators (ICER).

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